There are curious dialogues indeed behind the Exiles in Babylon conference, which gathers evangelical voices from across the ...

The Ark of the Covenant was used by the Israelites to transport the tablets inscribed with the Ten Commandments.

Near the start of the Neo-Babylonian Empire, there was a massive but largely forgotten battle between the Greeks and the Babylonians.

By 1000 B.C., the Assyrians, who had established a powerful empire in northern Mesopotamia, gained the upper hand. But despite periods of stable rule, Babylon would always fall to someone else.

The tablets are believed to come from Sippar - a city that flourished during the Babylonian Empire in what is now Iraq and date back to the middle and late Old Babylonian periods from about 1894 ...

the Persian Empire succeeded the Babylonian Empire in becoming the dominant power of the Near East. Drawing on the rich history of 'multi-national' empires that had dominated the region since the ...

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Persian ruler Cyrus the Great.